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The ways in which literary works begin have proved fascinating to readers and critics at least since Aristophanes. This collection of essays gives life to a topic of perennial interest by presenting a variety of original readings in nearly all the major genres of Greek and Latin literature. The subjects of these essays range from narrative voices in the opening of the Odyssey to ideological reasons for Tacitus' choice of a beginning in the Histories, and from a survey of opening devices in Greek poetry to the playwright's negotiations with the audience in Roman comedy. Other papers discuss 'false starts' in Gorgias and Herodotus, the prologues of Greek tragedy, Plato's 'frame' dialogues, delayed proems in Virgil, the role of the patron in Horace, aristocratic beginnings in Seneca, and 'inappropriate' prefaces in Plutarch. By embracing a variety of authors and a broad range of approaches, from formal analysis of opening devices to post-structural interpretation, these twelve contributions by both younger and established scholars offer an exciting new perspective on beginnings in classical literature.

Beginregels (Retoriek) --- Openings (Rhetoric) --- Premiers vers et premieres lignes (Rhetorique) --- Classical literature --- Littérature ancienne --- Ouverture (Rhétorique) --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism. --- -Openings (Rhetoric) --- Beginnings (Rhetoric) --- First lines (Rhetoric) --- Opening sentences --- Rhetoric --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Littérature ancienne --- Ouverture (Rhétorique) --- Classical literature - History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Openings (Rhetoric).

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Aeschylus --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Drama --- Tragédie grecque --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Histoire et critique --- Mythology, Greek, in literature --- Theater --- Openings (Rhetoric) --- Closure (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Tragedy --- History --- -Rhetoric, Ancient --- -Tragedy --- -Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Drama, Modern --- Plays --- Literature --- Dialogue --- -Rhetoric --- Rhetoric --- Philosophy --- -Eskhil --- Eschylus --- Aischylos --- Esquilo --- Eschilo --- Aiskhilos --- Eshil --- Æskílos --- Ajschylos --- Eschil --- Eschyle --- Äschylos --- Eskili --- Aiszkhülosz --- Eschylos --- Iskilos --- Эсхил --- אייסכילוס --- איסכילאס --- איסכילוס --- إيسخولوس --- ايسخيلوس --- Αἰσχύλος --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Tragedy. --- Technique. --- Closure (Rhetoric). --- Openings (Rhetoric). --- -Technique --- -Aeschylus --- -Philosophy --- -Aischylos --- Tragédie grecque --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- Ancient rhetoric --- Greek drama --- Beginnings (Rhetoric) --- First lines (Rhetoric) --- Opening sentences --- Dramaturgy --- Authorship --- Playwriting --- Endings (Rhetoric) --- Last lines (Rhetoric) --- Peroration --- Ancient presentation --- Presentation, Ancient --- Theater - History - To 500 --- Drama - Technique --- Theater - Greece --- Aeschylus - Technique

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This remarkable study shows how prologues ushered audience and actors through a rite of passage and how they can be seen to offer rich insight into what the early modern theatre was thought capable of achieving.

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